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    Jewish echoes from ancient West Arabia. Nabataeo-Arabic graffito from northwest Ḥigāz is dated to Passover of the year 303 AD. The txt was discovered by @AlsahraTeam and edited by L. Nehmé in a new volume on the inscriptions of the Darb al-Bakra.


    The text begins: bly dkyr sly br ʾwsw bṭb w slm mn qdm mry ʿlmʾ
    ‘Yea, may Solay son of Awso be remembered well and be secure before the Lord of the World’. The term mry ʿlmʾ 'Lord of the World' must have been a theonym used to refer to the monotheistic God.

    w ktbʾ dnh ktb ywm ḥg ʾl-pṭyr
    ‘and this writing he wrote on the day of Passover (=Ḥagg al-faṭīr 'feast of the unleavened bread')

    snt mʾt w tsʿyn w sbʿ
    ‘the year one hundred and ninety and seven’ (dated to the era of the province of Arabia, so 197 + 106 = 303 AD).

    Its lang. is 'Judaeo-Arabo-Aramaic' (a mouth full!). The fixed expressions are in Nabataean Aramaic while the term for Passover <ḥagg al-faṭīr> is Arabic. The use of ḥagg for ‘feast’ could echo Hebrew usage, and so this might be our earliest attested example of Judaeo-Arabic.

    There was a thriving Nabataean Jewish community in northern Arabia, known from txts spanning the first few centuries AD. These are usually identified as Jewish based on personal names or the use of the adjective yhwdy. This is the first txt to mention a Jewish holiday.

    Bibliography: L. Nehmé (ed.), The Darb al-Bakrah. A Caravan Route in North-West Arabia Discovered by Ali I. al-Ghabban. Catalogue of the inscriptions. contributions by Briquel-Chatonnet F., Desreumaux A., Ghabban A.I., Macdonald M.C.A., Nehmé L., Villeneuve F. Riyadh, SCTH, 2018.

    https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1072139565975130113

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    There were many Jewish communities in Arabia. To my understanding muhammad even asked for the help of the jews in-order to write the quran.
    The only community in Arabia that survived to this day is the Yemenite Jewish community.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sp_loa View Post
    There were many Jewish communities in Arabia. To my understanding muhammad even asked for the help of the jews in-order to write the quran.
    The only community in Arabia that survived to this day is the Yemenite Jewish community.
    Which destroyed the notions that Arabs and Jews were at each other throats for thousands of years or something. I'd say politics was responsible in dividing the communities.

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    Wow, very interesting. I wasn't aware of Jews in the Arabian peninsula outside of the Himyarite/Yemenite area. Maybe Muhammad killed them all (not passive agressive to Islam, just wondering haha).

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    Very cool.

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    Quite interesting stuff. Jews and Arabs seem to be quite close genetically, I remember long time ago reading an article of closeness of paternal lineages between Sayyeds and Kohens, they both clustered under J-YSC0000234 branches, and with TMRCA of 5500 Years before present.

    Quote Originally Posted by ADJOSC View Post
    Maybe Muhammad killed them all (not passive agressive to Islam, just wondering haha).
    I do not agree with the notion of "Muhammad killed the Jews and the Christians etc..." honestly. Muhammad rather saw the Jews as a closer allies to Islam than the Meccans (polytheists). So after securing a unity and pact with the Jews/Christians, these people would have to bind by the rules and to avoid further hostility and insurgency. That way, Muslims can be safe and ensured. The battles with the Jews came when they pretty much broke the pact.

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